LADIES’ COLUMN.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160812, 20 November 1920, Page 9

LADIES’ COLUMN.

USEFUL HINTS

The juice of a half lemon in a glass of water will frequently cure a sick headache.

; Weak tea is good for watering ferns in pots, and is also recommended as a wash for tired eyes. If you spill grease on the stove, wipe as soon as possible with a rag 'dipped in turpentine and polish as usual.

" Starch made with soapy water gives collars a beautiful gloss. It also prevents the iron from sticking. Pewter ware should be washed in hot "water with fine silver sand, and afterwards polished with a chamois leather.

Marks of burnt milk may be removed from pie-dishes by applying salt. If very obstinate mix a little crushed egg-shell with the salt. Add a little ground ginger to a rice pudding before baking it.. If this is done one can use half milk and half water instead of milk. ' Glasses which have become stuck can be separated if the lower one is put into a basin of warm water, and the top glass filled with cold water. Try eoaking badly-soiled handkerchiefs in strong salt water the night before ithey are to be washed. This simple way wi]l greatly facilitate the process. A teaspoonful of glycerine added to the well-beaten white of an egg, the juice of a lemon,' and enough sugar to make palatable, will relieve hoarseness. Fill burnt saucepan with salt and water. Leave for a few hours, then bring slowly to the boil. The.burnt particles will come off without any difficulty. Windows should be washed with cold water, and after being dried with a soft cloth should be rubbed again with methylated spirits applied with a, soft rag. For brittle finger nails anoint the nails at the root every night with vaseline, or dip (them in warm sweet oil. This will cause to grow better and they will not split. > To remove a cold pudding or jelly from a mould, wrap a hot cloth round the outside ox the mould for a minute or two. To remove a* hot pudding use a cold cloth. < Coloured handkerchiefs, or handkerchiefs with borders, should be soaked in cold water before they are washed. Tins will prevent the colours from running or fading. In order to render cotton draperies, window curtains, and children’s clothing non-inflammable, they should be rinsed in a solution of two ounces of alum to ,ohe gallon of water. A few 'drops of olive oil in the last rinsing water when the head is washed gives the hair a gloss without making it greasy. v To take spots out of blue serge and enerally Refresh it, bathe with a sponge dipped, in blue water, of use a brush instead of a sponge/ Afterwards hang up the dress to dry., / Keep all butter-wrappers, and when cooking a suet pudding roll it in the paper before putting it in the cloth. Tins helps to’moke the pudding light, and the cloth is easier to wash. Greasy-- frying pans or saucepans should be well rubbed with plenty of soft- paper while still hot. The-paper will absorb every particle of grease, and will be useful in lighting the fires next morning. If suet is melted in the oven and put into jars it will keep any length of time. The suet is much easier to chop if treated in this way. Puddings will Keep if they are made with suet that has been melted in the oven.

After you have finished starching, if you set the basin or bowl’aside until the, sediment settles, and pour off the water and leave the white substance for a day «r two, it will harden into crystals again, and can be used repeatedly. A lighted candle will clean a spring mattress. To make it quite clean and free from dust and fluff, run a lighted candle along the rolled wire edge, then beat with a small brush. This might be done with advantage every week. If used in moderation, glycerine is beneficial to the complexion. It should be applied, after using soap and water, with a moist sponge, in combination with clear cold water. The skin should be dried with an old cambric handkerchief.

When a pipe from a lavatory basin or a bath becomes clogged with soap, mix together a handful of soda and a handful of common salt and force it down the pipe. Leave this for half an hour; then pour down a large kettleful of boiling water, afterwards the pipe thoroughly with warm water.

To repair torn lace.curtains, tack tissue paper over the hole and, slackening the tension of the sewing machine, cover the paper with rows of sketching a little 'way apart, working down and_ across in the manner of a darn. This will form a strong 1 mesh, and when the paper is torn away and the curtains ironed and hung the “darns” will hardly be discernible.

RECIPES

Steamer Raspberry Jam Pudding.— Soak lib of scraps of bread in cold irater, then squeeze it as dry as possible, and beat with a fork until light and crumbly. Chop 3oz of suet very fine and add to Jbread with half a oupful of sped raisins, 2 tablespoonfuls brown sugar, £ teaspoonful of baking powder, a little cinnamon and ground ginger, and a little milk. Steam ,ih a well-greased dish for 2 hours. Serve with a sauce made by, boiling together 3 tablespoonfuls Yaspberry jam, f cupful water, \ lemon juice, Garnish with whipped cream. Vanilla Sponge.—Put £lb loaf sugar

and I pint water in a saucepan and simmer for I hour, Pour into a bowl, flavour with vanilla and stir till cool. Beat thoroughly the yolks of 3 eggs and the whites of 2 to a. stiff froth. Beat the whites into the’ syrup, then the yolks. Mix well. To 3oz dry flour add a teaspoonful baking powder. Lightly add this to the mixture and pour at once into a buttered tin and bake for one hour in a rather hot oven.

Currant and Apple Tart. —Line a tin plate with pastry (short or puff), whichever preferred. Peel and core 3 ov 4 large cooking apples, then, slice very thinly, and 'put a thick layer of the sliced apple on the pastry; then sprinkle a nandful of curtrants or raisins, and a few very thin slices of lemon peel. Then add another thick layer of sliced apples; sprinkle with sugar; cover with pastry; pierce the pastry half a dozen times with a fork, and bake in. moderately hot oven for half an hour.

Tomato Jelly Salad.—Three-quarter cup canned tomato, one slice onion, half stalk celery, quarter bay leaf, half chili pepper, quarter teaspoon shit, three-quarter granulated gelatine, quarter cup cold water, one olive, one teaspoonful caper, quarter cup tiny bits of green string beans, one hard-cooked yoke of eggs. (1) Simmer tomato, onion, celery, bay leaf, pepper, and salt ten minutes. (2) Add gelatine, softened in the cold water, and strain. (3): Let -mixture cool, stirring occasionally till it begins to thicken, then stir in beans, olive, capers, and yolk of egg. (4) Turn into moulds or cups, /and turn out when cold on salad bed. Food value: Blood purifying, vitamines, flesh forming. Potting Butter.—On© pound of saltpetre, lib of white sugar, 21b Brekk to a fine powder and mix the ingredients together. To each pound of butter,to be potted allow loz of .this mixture, and thoroughly incorporate them. The butter thus prepared is then to be pressed into a clean, dry eathenwaro vessel. Press the butter well and firmly down so as to leave no air bubbles. Fill the jars to within one inch of the top. Cover the surface of the butter with large grained salt to the thickness of half an inch, and lastly cover’ each with plate or slate. The salt absorbs the water, and in time,changes to brine, which forms an airtight layer on top of the butter.

GIRLS’ PIGTAILS COLLECTION.

The Berlin police have just arrested Robert Stoss, 37, of Valparaiso, who has, a passion for collecting girls’ pigtails. On visting his lodgings in Charlottenburg, a suburb of Berlin, the police discovered, in addition to women’s purses and handkerchiefs, no fewer than 150 pigtails of every shade from the lightest blonde to the deepest black.

HUSBAND AS SERVANT.

Mr R. Lind, a New York chiropodist, without disclosing that the _ defendant was his wife, recently claimed in the United States Supreme Court for £IO,OOO damages for wrongful dismissal from Mrs Lind,

According to the New York Herald, Mr Lind stated that his'' wife engaged him at a fixed salary a year ago to manage her business. In May she discharged him, saying she no longer required his services. The case, which has been adjourned three times, is still unsettled.

GIRL'S LOVE TRAGEDY. The suicide of a 17-year-bld girl who turned on the gas and read a novel while she was being asphyxiated was described at Eastbourne at the inquest on Dorothy Pain, shop assistant. It appeared that she placed a cushion on the floor near the gas _ oven and then placed several pennies in the gas meter and got her 12-year-old brother to put four more in. She then put her head in and turned the taps full on.

Her mother stated that the girl had been forbidden to keep company with a bov, and an address book was- produced containing the jiames of soldiers. A verdict of suicide during temporai-y insanity was returned.

A PASTOR PELTED.

The Rev. F. S. Kopfman was pelted with rotten eggs by women at Washington’s Corners, a New Jersey -summer resort, after he had preached a sermon in the Methodist church there, condemning women for the, scantiness of present-day apparel. “Some girls,” declared the preacher, “wear so few that I think they must be tatooed.” After a scathing description of women’s apparentimmodesty in dress. Mr*Kopfman exclaimed ; “Look! This, is the way they sit in public places!” ’ He, sat down and crossed his legs, with one foot extended outward at a considerable angle, exposing his socks, and then .continued; “But,! suppose we must bow to the constitutional amendment giving women the right tpli? vote.” When Mr Kopfman left- the church, and” climbed into a motor car, women in the streets pelted him with, rotten eggs, decayed vegetables and stones. His car broke down, and he was rescued, by a passing motorist. The women had made ready for him at Washington’s Corner’s, because it was the second time he, had made an effort to start a crusade' in favour of modesty in dres. ■

SHOULD A WOMAN DOCTOR TELL? A woman doctor protested against being called to give evidence at Lambeth Police Courts S.E., in a case in which a woman summoned her husband for maintenance. The woman said her husband alleged that she had given him a certain disorder .and turned her out of doors. /; Dr Logan, of King’s College Hospital, said that as 'a medical officer dealing with venereal disease she was under a definite obligation not to disclose any information to anyone other’ -than the patient. “As a court of ilustice,” she said to the magistrate, “are you overruling by obligation?” > . ' Mr A. Gill; “I don’t know what your obligation is unless there is anything in an Act of Parliament to prevent you frofii giving evdehce. ’ ’ Dr Logan. “Then you rule it is my duty to answer your questions?” Mr Gill: “Yea, I think it is.”_ Dr' Logan said she, had not had time to look up her notes, and the hearing was adjourned.

LOSS OF HUSBAND

WIDOW AWARDED COMPENSATION. ACTION AGAINST RAILWAY DEPARTMENT. A claim for £SOO compensation for loss of her husband was placed before the Arbitration Court yesterday afternoon by Harriet Butler, of Wanganui East, through her counsel, Mr Collins. This amount was claimed from the New Zealand Railway Department, which was represented by Mr Hutton. The plaintiff in her statement of claim declared that her husband was fpr 15 years in thd employ of the Railway Department as a painter, and in the course of and arising out of his employment contracted lead poisoning, from ivhich he died on April 22nd, 1920. The plaintiff, in the course of her evidence, said that her husband was in good health from the time of marriage up to about six years ago, wuen he complained of serious ‘ pains, and in consequence of an ensuing illness was away from work for about six weeks or two months. The pains were spasmodic, and were located in the stomach. He was medically attended at that illness. Sub r sequently deceased had. occasional -.-illnesses until (the date of his death. Three days prior to that event he was at work.-, Evidence was given by Dr A, Wilson that he attended Butler in April last. He was suffering from paralysis of the left arm, and was treated at the hospital. Witness described the symptoms of the case. The immediate cause of death was an appoplexy caused by~hemmorrhage on the brain, induced, as witness’s opinion, through chronic poisoning of the system due to lead poisoning. The symptoms and history of the case all indicated the conclusion he had mentioned.

To Mr Hutton; xuue lining of the gums, a well-known symptom of leadpoisoning, was not present, and was the only well-known symptom that was not present. Dr Anderson also gave evidence. He said that he knew Butler; had attended him in September, 1913, but could not recollect for what complaint, except that he had suffered from severe abdominal pains. Medical' evidence was also given by Dr. D. M; Mitchell. There were three causes which might have brought about the condition of deceased, but tests eliminated two and left lead poisoning.

Harry Fountain, a painter, employed at the Railway Workshops, gave evidence as to the nature of the deceased's work.

This closed the case for the plaintiff,

The case for,the Crown consisted mainly of the evidence of medical men based on documents in connection with the case. *

, Dr J. H. Reid contended that the history of the case did not shbw any pronounced signs of lead poisoning, but considered that judging by the symptoms it was extraordinary. He was more-inclin-ed to think that the cause of death was atharoma, and not so much to lead-pois-oning. Dr H. D. Robertson could not suggest any other cause of death but lead poisoning. Dr H. Hutson did not think the possibility of death as the result of lead poisoning could be excluded. There were certain symptoms which pointed to it. On the other hand other causes could not be excluded. Mr Hutton contended that it had not been proved that death was due to lead poisoning. When Mr Collins rose to address the Court, his Honor said; I,don’t think it is necessary to trouble you, Mr Collins. Proceeding, his Honor said the Court was satisfied that the plaintiff had tstablished her claim. All the evidence pointed to lead being the ultimate cause of death.

Judgment was given for the full amount claimed, with £ls 15s costs and witnesses’ expenses.

DON’TS FOB “ MOTIE ” FANS

Don’t, when entering a “movie’ theatre, dig your elbows into the person next to you or tread on another’s corns, in an attempt to push past to secure your seat. Don’t turn round in your seat and stare at the audience or talk too loud or whistle before the pictures commence. Don’t, when the operator has trouble with his machine or the film snaps, pass remarks or stamp your feet impatiently while w r aiting for the picture to come on again. Don’t stand up in your, seat in your excitement, when the villain is about to kill the hero or w r hen a motor-car topples over a cliff. Don’t hiss or jeer at the villain, when he is defeated or falls into his own trap. Don’t, at the interval of the pictures, throw lollie papers at the audience or make darts out of your programmes. Don’t, when eating sweets, make too much row as it is an annoyance to others. Don’t shriek too loud or jump about in your seat, when I ‘Fatty” lands his opponent in the face with a freshly baked pie. Don’t, when you hear a young child crying, pass remarks and wish it somewhere else. Don’t argue with your neighbour as to who is the best actor or who is wearing the best dress among the audience. Don’t, when yon are touched by a pathetic scene, wring your handkerchief s out on the floor. "Don’t, when the pictures are over, push people about or climb over the seats in* your attempt to get out of the theatre. REYNOLD AYERS, Wanganui.